‘Transitional Justice’ discourse in transition

Abstract

The past two decades have seen a veritable boom in international ‘transitional justice’ practices, advocacy and academic research. At the same time, the conceptual contents of ‘transitional justice’ have undergone important changes as the following pages show – without, however, arriving at a single fixed meaning or theory. More recently, awareness of inbuilt conceptual tensions within the fast growing field of ‘transitional justice’ has given rise to more critical readings of ‘transitional justice’ in the political sciences. Increasingly, these approach ‘transitional justice’ from a discursive perspective.